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Corporations demand perfection from workers, but AI gets unlimited slack. LLM users have bottomless patience for inconsistent tools, and no grace left for their colleagues. What if we could flip it around?

“AI can make mistakes” might as well be the slogan of our era. Even boosters admit that you need to spin the vibe code slot machine a few times to get a jackpot.

An employee with that degree of consistency would be fired.

So how do we redirect some of that unlimited grace from machines to humans?

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"Much like the 80s, when we tricked more of the population into the stock market to feed the investor class, we need you now to feed AI!"

New cover for NEVER Stop Smiling's 2nd edition Distorted painting of smiling person holding their hands up with purple and blue paint streaking down their naked unnaturally pale body as they smile creepily with the blue paint or juices filling their mouth Top text in bright yellow: NEVER Stop Smiling Bottom text. First row in strong red: 2nd Ashcan Edition, bottom row in white: Thought Punks

🚨 A world of mutants, witches, & always shifting geography.
🌞But The Happy Place protects.
🤯Here, even death is but illusion.

❗️One vital law:
😀NEVER Stop Smiling😀

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Probably the only evidence anyone has shown me that the AI singularity has occurred

Dungeon, Inc. A game by Ben Felten.
Kickstarter: 20th January.

In 2026, Unwinnable is running a long-term drive with the goal of getting one new subscription each day. To up the ante, we're including the 2025 issues of Unwinnable Monthly and Exploits – 24 free issues of thoughtful, sharp writing on games and culture. Is today your day? unwinnable.com/subscribe/

She's a damn fine goblin witch

Cairn Press The official website for the Cairn Press imprint.

Next month I will launch Cairn Press.
I tried to make a publishing agreement that is fair, free, and mutually beneficial. Once the lawyer approves final contract I'll release it as CC-BY-SA, if possible. I've also written up a "plain English" version that you can read here:

cairnpress.ink#terms

An epic and mind-blowing expansion of the Area X story by way of a hidden metal box full of secret images and documents purporting to be the last report of the Central agent Karen Hargraves. Spanning the 30 years of Southern Reach expeditions, reaching into the past and the future, this full-color book will satisfy Area X completists while adding to the narrative begun with the first four novels, to Michael Sand at Abrams, in an exclusive submission, by Joseph Veltre at Gersh Agency and attorney Alex Kohner (world).

SOUTHERN REACH READERS and weirdlings in general, here's a call for lighthouse photo submissions if you want a chance to be in the forthcoming Area X: The Southern Reach Files book. Starts Nov. 1, ends Jan 21. PLEASE read thoroughly. Questions, weirdos?

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a late night shot of a gas station pump, with the yellow and orange neon lights particularly strong

a photo of a rusty green bridge and a distant building over a river, caked in fog

a photo of a graveyard, covered in snow, the sky blotted out in white, with a blue tint to it all

a late night winter road, with deep red street lamps lighting everything

hey! i'm doing a winter sale, though not of games - but of my packs of moody, atmospheric photos of Maine! A Place Without Bodies volumes 1&2! over *600* photos, *with* license for commercial use, at 2/3rds off - just $20! great for projects of all kinds! lasts till jan 5th! ko-fi.com/s/bc50ecb11f

SOUP ROOMS is a collaborative minimalist art-game featuring over 100 ROOMS created by cool and talented indie devs from around the world.

Admission is free of charge, and you can even make your own ROOMS and SOUP-like games to share with others!

We hope you enjoy your stay.

LINKS BELOW!

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Today:
Played STALKER 2
Read "Swedish Machines: sunset at zero point" by Simon Stålenhag
Watching "IT: Welcome to Derry"
#DerryExclusionZone

a late night shot of a gas station pump, with the yellow and orange neon lights particularly strong

a photo of a rusty green bridge and a distant building over a river, caked in fog

a photo of a graveyard, covered in snow, the sky blotted out in white, with a blue tint to it all

a late night winter road, with deep red street lamps lighting everything

hey hey! i'm doing a sale of my packs of moody, atmospheric, amateur photos of Maine, "A Place Without Bodies", on sale for 2/3rds off! for just $20, you get over *600* photos, great for projects of all kinds, *with* license for commercial use! lasts till 9/30, midnight! ko-fi.com/s/bc50ecb11f

Found Footage of the Bay Jam A game jam from 2025-09-30 to 2025-10-30 hosted by IKO. The screen crackles to life, first it’s a static snowstorm and then an video stutter-steps into motion. You sit up on the count, thinking, “That...

VHS-powered and 199X-infused TTRPG jam to start soon
Found Footage of the Bay

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Liminal Horror Deluxe Edition Liminal Horror Deluxe Edition is the definitive edition of the world's greatest horror rpg.

LIMINAL HORROR: Deluxe Edition is now live on Backerkit! This is the definitive version of the hit survival-horror TTRPG: revised, enhanced, and expanded with over 370 pages of character options, GM advice, and

SO.
MUCH.
BLOOD.

Get yours now!
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❤️❤️❤️

Liminal Horror Winter Giveaway

Enter to win a bundle of LH goodies by March 2nd

Multiple ways to enter:
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Maybe if someone tells the Democrats that trump’s cronies are organizing peaceful encampments on college campuses to protest genocide they’ll freak out and do something

Secrets in the Static: Lynchian Horror TTRPG by Thought Punks Secrets in the Static is a tabletop roleplaying game about surreal dread, unstable identity, and small town horror, written by Rev Casey the author of No Angels Live Here and NEVER Stop Smiling.

Surreal Lynchian horror awaits, where your very identity and past are uncertain. A vanished town frozen in the perfect 90s. The crowdfunding campaign is live! Come to our small town, where the Static reigns.
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#TTRPG #IndieGame #Crowdfunding

Write about them then

A group of horrible goblins and the word GROMDONK

I was thinking about imaginary game Gromdonk

and maybe if I were to make something like this then the most gribbly and gromdonkish way to depict the goblins would be to make them out of plasticine and photograph them rather than draw them.

Something 🤔

Title graphic reads: The Hearth Magazine

Okay. *deep breath* Here we go.

The Hearth Magazine is now accepting pitches for #TTRPG articles. Please check out our website for our Commitments as well as Artist and Article Submission guidelines, and I look forward to hearing from folks. Please spread the word! www.thehearthmagazine.com

Y'all, I'm so appreciative of being able to come on here and just scroll through TTRPGs and art. Thank you ❤️

🎶 life is like a hurricane here in DUKK BÖRG 🎶

I'm looking forward to hearing them

yet another round of "dems won't stand up for you because they won't even stand up for themselves", huh

You know that scene in Dune where they do drugs, go to a nightclub, then hookup?